‘Neo-Imperialism’ Archives
UK Threatens Israel with Isolation
by Eitam Abadi Britain is threatening Jerusalem with international isolation unless Israel submits to Western demands to surrender its disputed heartland to the Palestinian Authority. According to a senior British official, Jerusalem is in danger of being further isolated in the international community if United States President Barack [...]
Obama’s UN Nominee Advocated Invasion of Israel
by Naama Ben-Yaakov United States President Barack Obama has selected as his nominee for American ambassador to the United Nations a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and academic who at one point in her career has advocated a US invasion of Israel. Samantha Power, a former White House aide and Harvard professor, asserted in a 2002 interview [...]
Steinitz Rejects Western Military Presence in Israel
by Sagit Levi International Relations Minister Yuval Steinitz (Likud) made clear on Tuesday that Jerusalem would oppose any attempt by the United States to station international forces in the country as part of Washington's overall agenda to force Israel to relinquish territory to the Western-backed Palestinian Authority. “Some people are [...]
US Arming Jordan Ahead of Possible Syria Invasion
by Mahmoud Abu Ghosh The United States is sending a Patriot missile battery and F-16 fighters to Jordan for a military drill and may keep the weapons there to counter the threat posed by Syria’s civil war, according to AFP. The Patriot missile launchers and F-16 warplanes “were approved for deployment to Jordan as part of Exercise [...]
Britain, US Aggressively Pushing Partition
by Naama Ben-Yaakov British Foreign Secretary William Hague said in an interview with Sky News published Friday that Britain's antagonism towards Israel is based on the Jewish presence in Israel's disputed heartland. Hague, who met with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (Likud) on Thursday during a visit to Israel, made the comments in [...]
Kerry Visit Expected to Increase US Pressure
by Eitam Abadi American Secretary of State John Kerry is expected in Israel on Thursday to resume efforts to force Israel to surrender its disputed heartland to the Western-backed Palestinian Authority. Until now, Kerry's efforts have concentrated on trying to create an environment in which Israel and the Fatah-led PA can negotiate the terms [...]
US Warns Against Beit El Construction
by Sagit Levi The United States warned Israel on Thursday against following through with reported plans to build additional homes in the Jewish town of Beit El. US State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell told reporters at the daily briefing in Washington, that President Barack Obama has consistently condemned any Jewish building in the [...]
Kerry Planning Return to Israel
by Naama Ben-Yaakov American Secretary of State John Kerry announced Wednesday that he will be returning to Israel in late May in order to press Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to agree to territorial concessions to the Western-backed Palestinian Authority. Speaking at the start of talks with Israeli chief negotiator Tzipi Livni in Rome, [...]
CIA Pays Millions to Afghan Puppet Regime
by Mahmoud Abu Ghosh Tens of millions of United States dollars in cash were delivered by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in suitcases, backpacks and plastic shopping bags to the office of Afghan President Hamid Karzai for more than a decade, according to a New York Times report citing current and former advisers to the Afghan [...]
WikiLeaks to Drop Nearly 2 Million New Documents
by Naama Ben-Yaakov WikiLeaks website founder Julian Assange has revealed that his site is set to publish more than 1.7 million United States diplomatic and intelligence documents from the 1970s. WikiLeaks has collected a variety of records including cables, intelligence reports and congressional correspondence and is releasing them in [...]
